Feed basket



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A. 4s. PETERSON.

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' Patented sept. 15, v1925.

ALEXANDER s. PETERSON, oFBooN'roN, NEW JERSEY.

A FEED BASKET.

Application tlledrjOctober 10,` 1924. Serial No. 742,789.

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Be it knownthat I, ALEXANDER S. PETER- soN, a citizen 'of theUnitedStates, resid county of Morris,and State of New Jersey',phavekinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed Baskets,

`of vwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to feed baskets which are suitablyconstructed tobe carried by hand from a suitable withineasy reach of' the poultry.

1 `The object ofv the present invention is to provide an improvedconstruction,'combina tion and arrangement of parts'whereby a 4 deviceyof this characterililay be lightly and durably constructed ofcomparatively Vfew parts and at the Sametime VVconveniently handled andcarried. Certain specific objects of invention will appear in thespecification and be pointed out in the appended claims, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings whlch exemplify my inventlon in a`preferred embodiment and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of thefeed basket in its preferredform; Figure 2 is a side'elevation ofthesame, Figure 3 is an end elevation of the same; and Y Figure 4 is abottom plan view of the same. e

According to the drawings, my improved feed f basket contemplates anupper frame comprising a sheet metal band 1 having its opposite endsunited by rivets 2 and formed into an elongated frame as shown. Ar-

ranged below the said upper frame is a botf tom picking plate 3 which issuspended from the upper frame by means of wires yhaving their oppositeextremities provided withl hooks 4 which are hooked into a series ofholes 5 along opposite side bars of the upper frame. The dependingintermediate portions of the wires terminate below in substantiallyU-shapedfbends 6 of which the n opposite branches extend upwardly thruop-V positely arranged holes 7 in the bottom plate 3. As` vshown bestVin Figure 3, the up- `wardly extending branches 8 of the wires arebulged outwardly to increase thecapacity of the basket, the contractedU-shaped bends inthe intermediate ortions of said wires being adaptedVto con ne the contents to a narrow space above the picking plate 3 Yytween the wires 9 vsupplystation to `places in which they are to bevsuspended said yplates having Lrectangular bottom to be readilyaccessible to the fowl from either side of the basket. p

According to the present embodiment of my invention, a pair of wires 9varearranged at each end of the basket, said wires being connected aboveyto the upper frame l and below to the avoid `downwardly "contractedspaces beor other places in which chickens, for-example, areliable tobecome caught bytheir heads, sheet metal plates'lO provide closed endwalls to the feed basket, their lateral edges wrappedV around the wiresBails or handles 11 may be connected to the upper frame l to providesuitable Vmeans for carrying the basket from one place to another laswell as for hanging said basket from any suitable support and withineasy reach of the fowl. It kwill be obvious from the foregoingdescription that a feed basket thus constructed can be substantiallymade at small expense, is readily handled and carried, and adapted to besuspended with little or no trouble in any desired place.

I claim:

1. A poultry elongated upper rectangular frame, an elongated rectangularbottom plate ofrelatively smaller width, parallelly arranged lateralwires for suspending said elongated bottom plate from said upper frameand providing uninterrupted spaces extending from top to bottom of saidfeed basket, and means for barring poultry from access to said feedbasket thru the downwardly contracted spaces at opposite ends of thebasket.

2. A feed basket comprising an upper elongated rectangular frame, anelongated plate, and spaced lateral wires for suspending said bottomplate from said upper frame, each of said wires having their opposite.ends connected to opposite sides of said upper elongated frame andforming a depending loop within which said bottom plate is suspended.

3. A poultryV feed basket comprising an upper elongated rectangularframe, an elongated bottom plate, wires having their opposite endsconnected to opposite sides of said upper frame and/with their dependinginter- `mediate portions suspending said bottom picking plate 3. Inorder tok feedV basket comprising an p thru the downwardly contractedspaces at each end of said basket. Y

4. A vfeed basket comprising an upper fra1ne,a bottom plate, wiresdepending troni said upper frame and supportably engaging said bottomplate, and inetal sheets arranged at opposite ends of said` feed basket,said metal sheets having their lateral edges rolled upon oppositelydisposed wires. i

5. 1n a feed basket for poultry, an upper yband having its endsconnected together and formed into an upper yrectangular frame,

. :,said. band,- being lprovided with a series of holes, wire loopsprovided at opposite ends with hooks by which they rare suspended insaidholes, the intermediate portions-oil said wire; `loops beingcontracted downwardly,

vand a flat bottoni platehaving opposite se- `ries of holes thru whichsaid intermediate portions ofthe loops extend tor suspending said flatbottoni plate.

' 6..I1ia feed basket for poultry, an upper band having its endsconnected together and formed into an 'upper rectangular traine,

holes, a

with hooks by which they are suspended in said holes, the intermediateportions of said wire loops being contracted downwardly, a fiat bottoniplate having opposite series of holes thru which said intermediateport-ions of the loops extend for suspending said fiat bottom plate, andend plates of sheet inetal having their lateral edges wrapped aroundoppositely disposed wires at opposite ends oi' said basket. f

7. A feed basket including a bottoni plate provided with oppositelyarranged series of band forming a rectangular frame wider than saidbottoni plate, said band being provided along the side of said trarnewith oppositely arranged series of' holes, and wires having theiropposite ends hooked rinto the holes along. the sides ot said frame andtheir depending intermediate portions contractedgbelow andterniinatingin U-shaped bends within which said bottoni plate is suspended with vtheopposite branches of said U-shaped bends extending through the holes insaidbottorn plate. Asaidbandxbeing provided with a series of l holes,wire loops kprovided .at opposite ends i JaLEx s. PETERSON.

